An incremental multimodal realizer for behavior co-articulation and coordination

  • Authors:

  • Herwin van Welbergen;Dennis Reidsma;Stefan Kopp

  • Affiliations:

  • Sociable Agents Group, CITEC, Fac. of Technology, Bielefeld University, Germany;Human Media Interaction, University of Twente, The Netherlands;Sociable Agents Group, CITEC, Fac. of Technology, Bielefeld University, Germany

  • Venue:
  • IVA'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Human conversations are highly dynamic, responsive interactions. To enter into flexible interactions with humans, a conversational agent must be capable of fluent incremental behavior generation. New utterance content must be integrated seamlessly with ongoing behavior, requiring dynamic application of co-articulation. The timing and shape of the agent's behavior must be adapted on-the-fly to the interlocutor, resulting in natural interpersonal coordination. We present AsapRealizer, a BML 1.0 behavior realizer that achieves these capabilities by building upon, and extending, two state of the art existing realizers, as the result of a collaboration between two research groups.